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Ninety-Eight Year-Old Woman Accused of Strangling Centenarian Roommate

By Baker Associates

Whether it be in the family home, a college dormitory, or a nursing home or assisted living facility, living with a roommate can often be a contentious situation. Every person has a certain way he or she likes to enjoy being at home, and roommates often fight about issues such as noise, space, organization, and cleanliness. In cases where the roommates are free to explore other living arrangements, such disagreements usually result in the roommates deciding to live elsewhere. In cases where roommates are not free to live somewhere else (brothers who share a room in the family home, e.g.), these disagreements often result in physical and verbal confrontations; rarely, however, do such confrontations turn deadly. Unfortunately, such a confrontation did turn deadly in Massachusetts recently, with a ninety-eight year-old woman being accused of strangling her one hundred year-old roommate in a Massachusetts as a result of a disagreement about a bedside table...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on December 15, 2009 (boomark / email).